Brenda Cooper's "Edge of Dark" is set in a far-off future where Earth is just a myth; people primarily live in massive space stations or on a few colonized planets around a new sun -- all within ...

So far, Sam Kean has tracked scientists’ search for order in nature, starting with the periodic table of elements in 2010’s The Disappearing Spoon, moving on to the human genome in The Violinist’s ...

In his entrancing new book, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, science writer Sam Kean burrows into the workings of an organ once deemed as unknowable as the far reaches of the galaxy, and ...